Subject: Line in my Message Headers

From: Bruce Toews <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:31:03 -0600 ()

I get the following line in message headers I send out:

 X-Authentication-Warning: terminal.autobahn.mb.ca: toews owned process doing -bs

I never used to get this line until I switched to this Internet provider.
Can someone tell me what this means? Thanks.

Bruce

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From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:02:59 -0500 (EST)

> Can someone tell me what this means? Thanks.

It means you have annoying escape sequences in your personal name.

-S

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 07:40:41 +0800 (GMT)

> I never used to get this line until I switched to this Internet provider.

	It means you should call your new Internet provider and
ask them.  When you see a line that starts with X- or x- it means it
is "non-standard" and the chances that anyone other than the people
who invented will know the true meaning is small.

	Ed

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Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                   Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
Voice: +886-2-715-2222 x287        6/F, 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3
FAX  : +886-2-712-9197             Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 20 Jan 1997 23:58:24 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[email-masked]>,
>Can someone tell me what this means? Thanks.

Pine, when using the sendmail program (or similar) to send mail and with
the enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation option, starts it with some special
options (-bs, as the above says) in order to fully use the sendmail 
ESMTP capabilities if available.

This mode apparently allows easier forging of mail or something, and so
some sendmail programs are set up to insert a warning if any non-superuser
starts it that way.

I believe you can get rid of this warning by changing pine to use
an Internet connection to the mail server (possibly just 'localhost')
instead. This is set in the Setup/Config/smtp-server option.

Greetings,
Ørjan.